2019. It's 2021 now. That's 2 years by my recollection. It was an Indian lady that brought it to me and wanted me to sell it for her. I told her it wasn't worth anything as it would cost about as much to repair as i could get for it. I transferred all her tapes for her and basically fixed for free and she sold it. The guy that bought it gave it to me when he was finished with it. Now it goes up on Craigslist to find a new home and hopefully that will be it. Unfortunately i didn't receive the adapter.
Seeing the CCD image at the beginning, I was thinking, "I hope that is not a CCD sensor issue", but as soon as I saw the playback look the same I knew it was going to be in the video section.
I have this exact camcorder, it turns on and plays etc but the viewfinder has a vertical line only that i can see, i also notice an odour, probably needs caps, i may have to take a look now ive watched your video
That is in a nice condition, the original owner must have taken good care of it. Smashing donation from a viewer :-D That taped cap has to be your work, it's still ok.
Hey, I was wondering about making an experiment with one of these Handycams; just replacing the black and white viewfinder for another colour viewfinder, both from different models of Handycams. Is it possible, or i need more pins for the colour connector than an ordinary camcorder has? Thank you, wizard
I have a couple of SD and HD mini-DV cameras that I use all the time! I also have a nice Sony IMX multiformat J1, and a couple DVHD transports with the firewire interface!
I have a Sony CCD-TR33 and suddenly the picture on playback is all fuzzy in black and white. I could use a rebuild. Where are you located? This is barely used.
I've got a similar Hi8 Sony model and the tapes are running pretty slow (severe speeds fluctuations) and the picture on playback and recording is heavily noisy. Any idea what the issue could be? Also leaky caps?
@@12voltvids yeah, I have a ccd-f350e which has this problem. The playback picture is all weird and multicoloured, constantly rolls and the picture in camera mode has a dark blue tint to it. Do you know which caps on which board I have to look at and if the rolling/multicoloured glitches and blue tint are caused by them?
If you read comments from viewers it appears that some people do, and I have sold 15 of those vhsc tapes I had a few weeks back on a video. I listed this camera on Craigs list and have 2 offers so far.
I keep my Sony DCR-TRV520 Digital 8 camera around even after transferring the tapes because I know the moment I get rid of it I'll find another tape somewhere or a relative will have tapes to transfer.
thanks for your videos, I have a samsung camcorder and I don't understand why I can't see the videos with RCA cables on my tv they look bad, but I see it and it's perfect on the small LCD screen of the camcorder, could you please help me believe what is wrong?
hope it plays good on the LCD screen then the playback circuit of the cameras working it's something in the video output that's not working possibly a bad capacitor or something in the video path where it splits off to go to the output.
@@12voltvids thank you very much for your answer, do you have a video where it shows in which part of the video camera the circuit you are talking about is located
@@12voltvids By the way, what I really need is to digitize some videos on hi8 mm video tape and since the converter does not receive a good signal from the camera it becomes impossible to digitize it, do you have a camera for sale that can help me convert my old videos? I live in Meryland and how much would it cost me?
This one sold but I do have a Canon available. Viewfinder is dead on it due to broken flex cable. The camera does record and play though. I also have a sanyo but I haven't checked it out yet.
Just cheap ones. I make no money from these. They go for 100 or less. I know eBay prices are much higher but only fools pay that. I get em for free and get them working well enough to play tapes and sell them.
watching you now for a while but notice you never clean the pads or use liquid flux. You always have really good results and enjoy watching your videos :)
I use liquid flux only on surface mount components. There is flux in the solder that works on conventional thru hole. As to cleaning the board this is totally unnecessary that's the flex itself is non-conductive. When I'm dealing with surface mounted chips are quite often clean it with isopropanol just so I can inspect and make sure that there are no solder bridges and a lot of times I do this off camera.
@@informediatech-bruno5766 would have been an HDV and i always thought that Panasonic used the same 1080i spec that Sony used and only JVC used 720. That was one of the problems with HDV. 2 resolution standards and you needed to use the same equipment throughout work flow.
"I sell them dirt cheap". Well, I figure 'dirt cheap' means different amounts of money around the world. Where I live, 100$ is very far from dirt cheap (even in Canadian $). There are many people here who earns 250-300$ a month! I'd buy such camera for 25-50$ max in working condition. 100$ maybe for a higher range stereo Hi8 or a Digital8 which can play back analog, but I don't really need it because i have separate 8, Hi8, and Digital8 cameras, and I would be reluctant to wear out a Digital8 camera with analog playback. Playing back regular 8mm tapes with Hi8 cameras makes some sense though, because Hi8 cams have S-Video output.
But a digital 8 camera will digitize it into a high quality DV stream and send it over FireWire at better quality than you can get with a capture card even over svideo. This one already sold and i ended up getting 200 for it and the guy that bought it sold it right away for 300. Made 100 just to pick it up and deliver it.
@@12voltvids I think not all analog playback capable Digital8 cams are able to digitize the analog signal and send it to FireWire. IIRC, only some of those can do it which has analog video input on them, and they are pretty rare. My high schools' studio had one, it was (well, not was, they probably still have it) a late '90s model, and they used it for capturing VHS footages as well. I'm not sure if the old DV format is up to today's standard as a source, if someone wants a HD upscale. It might be the fault of my lowly, last generation Digital8 DCR-TRV270, but it produces quite a significant level of macroblocking around fast moving detailed objects, like tree foliage in the wind. You said in a previous video that sometimes it seemed that a pro 3CCD Hi8 camcorder produced better picture than a pro 3CCD DV. That's exactly my impression even with consumer cameras. I prefer the picture of a Hi8 recording captured from S-Video over the picture of a Digital8 or miniDV captured through FireWire. I've never tried and compared what would happen to a good Hi8 recording if it's transferred through a Digital8 camera with FireWire. If it introduces the same macroblocking that my Digital8 camera does, then I'd stick with the S-Video output of a Hi8 camera instead. Recenly I used to capure to Lagarith Lossless video with PCM audio, then encode it to h.264 and AAC audio. If any picture enhancement is needed, I'd do it on the lossless source file with AVIsynth and/or VirtualDub. But I'm just playing with it yet, I might start a small archiving business in the near future, like in 2 years or something. For a start, I need a stronger PC than this old E7500 Core2Duo, because it's struggling with any picture enhancements, especially with HD upscale...
@@mrnmrn1 every digital 8 camera that I've ever seen that has analog playback capabilities has the ability to digitize 8mm and high tapes. Not all had a pass through however so you could not just plug a VCR in and output it as DV. You could plug vhs in recorded onto digital 8 I meant output that as a DV stream but everyone that I saw that had analog playback could output on firewire. Unless someone asks for their tapes digitized into DV Avi I generally capture directly to a DVD recorder at the highest quality setting and then import the mp2 ipb stream and save it as an MPEG file. I find the color better we're using the hardware encoders in DVD recorders such as my Toshiba in Panasonic standalone machines as the color space is encoded 420 as opposed to 411. But for archiving I do not upscale I give the client their digitized tapes in 480i and they can upscale if they wish. 9 out of 10 customers don't even ask to have their tapes digitized to USB or hard drive they want their tapes digitized directly to DVD so they have a physical copy not just a file that can be wiped accidentally. It's not that the BB encoding look bad as I showed in that demo tape that wasn't the tape format that made that recording look bad that was the crappy chips in the camera. The DV format had such high resolution and the camera used relatively low resolution sensors. that was a crappy Cannon three chip camera that made those recordings, my pro JVC did not produce artifacts like that and did look Superior to my hi8 footage of the day. The problem with analog is the chroma is noisy and that random noise does not play well with encoders and creates larger files than they need to be because the noise has to be also digitized a good clean video signal will look Superior when stored as digital files even in DV. TV looked very good when the source feeding it was good but you know saying garbage in garbage out.
The grating dude. I figure out about it on my cd lens floating base apparatus. I just put a video up about the RCA CD-9500. You will get a kick out of me (because of how on point you are, but I did get results!!!) Check it out when you feel like it. It's my brother's birthday. They gonna (slang, yes I know) be here soon. I will watch your latest soon! Probably tonight or tomorrow morning. :) Rock on dude.
One year to be precise you worked on this camera. 😍
No it was more than a year ago more like 2
@@12voltvids did you check your video play list i found it on your channel, but if you want to still correct me that's ok.
2019. It's 2021 now. That's 2 years by my recollection. It was an Indian lady that brought it to me and wanted me to sell it for her. I told her it wasn't worth anything as it would cost about as much to repair as i could get for it. I transferred all her tapes for her and basically fixed for free and she sold it. The guy that bought it gave it to me when he was finished with it. Now it goes up on Craigslist to find a new home and hopefully that will be it. Unfortunately i didn't receive the adapter.
@@12voltvids ok thanks. 🍻
Complexity of these Things is Amazing...
I like your videos and your content! Thank you for your Channel! Big Respect for your Job!! ❤❤
Seeing the CCD image at the beginning, I was thinking, "I hope that is not a CCD sensor issue", but as soon as I saw the playback look the same I knew it was going to be in the video section.
Yup. Usually is. It will probably work for another year or so and then something else will break.
I have this exact camcorder, it turns on and plays etc but the viewfinder has a vertical line only that i can see, i also notice an odour, probably needs caps, i may have to take a look now ive watched your video
Yes horizontal deflection cap.
did you ever fix the vertical line, if so how?
That is in a nice condition, the original owner must have taken good care of it.
Smashing donation from a viewer :-D
That taped cap has to be your work, it's still ok.
Didn't expect someone to give me something I worked on a few years ago, but everyone knows me. I ran the local tv shop service dept for 20 years.
When I saw the repair I thought it looked like one of your repairs saw you do that with the caps a few times
How many Sony cameras I'd fixed,when I worked at local Sony service center.
This smd capacitors was very very bad...
I refused to fix them at any cost. Told them to buy a new one.
You may have missed a cap... C475 was all brown and leaky looking as well...
Hey, I was wondering about making an experiment with one of these Handycams; just replacing the black and white viewfinder for another colour viewfinder, both from different models of Handycams. Is it possible, or i need more pins for the colour connector than an ordinary camcorder has? Thank you, wizard
If not mistaken the video signal that feeds the viewfinder is only monochrome.
@@12voltvids Damn! I was wondering because i saw some of Handycams models that were released with monochrome and colour viewfinder
I have a couple of SD and HD mini-DV cameras that I use all the time!
I also have a nice Sony IMX multiformat J1, and a couple DVHD transports with the firewire interface!
I have a Sony handyman der-try 310 , error 31:42 i tried to do but i am not handy , would you able to fix it ? By the way love your videos
Possibly. I never guarantee i can fix anything.
I have a Sony CCD-TR33 and suddenly the picture on playback is all fuzzy in black and white. I could use a rebuild. Where are you located? This is barely used.
Another one saved from the vertical filing cabinet :-))
I've got a similar Hi8 Sony model and the tapes are running pretty slow (severe speeds fluctuations) and the picture on playback and recording is heavily noisy.
Any idea what the issue could be? Also leaky caps?
How do you adjust the tracking on a handycam? Is it the tape guides that you screw up and down?
8mm has auto track finding using signals recorded on tape. The guides affect the alignment so if they are out of adjustment you will get lines.
@@12voltvids yeah, I have a ccd-f350e which has this problem. The playback picture is all weird and multicoloured, constantly rolls and the picture in camera mode has a dark blue tint to it. Do you know which caps on which board I have to look at and if the rolling/multicoloured glitches and blue tint are caused by them?
@@callumthomas6152 there will be a bunch of surface mount electrolytic. I don't know the specific ones off hand.
Is there still anyone today who uses such old cameras? incredible!
When does something more exciting come who is not an old cameras and video players?
I'm getting tired of seeing this crap myself. You would think I like this small shit, but I hate it. Can't make any money doing this work.
If you read comments from viewers it appears that some people do, and I have sold 15 of those vhsc tapes I had a few weeks back on a video. I listed this camera on Craigs list and have 2 offers so far.
I keep my Sony DCR-TRV520 Digital 8 camera around even after transferring the tapes because I know the moment I get rid of it I'll find another tape somewhere or a relative will have tapes to transfer.
Same here. I have 4 digital 8 decks with analog playback.
thanks for your videos, I have a samsung camcorder and I don't understand why I can't see the videos with RCA cables on my tv they look bad, but I see it and it's perfect on the small LCD screen of the camcorder, could you please help me believe what is wrong?
hope it plays good on the LCD screen then the playback circuit of the cameras working it's something in the video output that's not working possibly a bad capacitor or something in the video path where it splits off to go to the output.
@@12voltvids thank you very much for your answer, do you have a video where it shows in which part of the video camera the circuit you are talking about is located
@@12voltvids By the way, what I really need is to digitize some videos on hi8 mm video tape and since the converter does not receive a good signal from the camera it becomes impossible to digitize it, do you have a camera for sale that can help me convert my old videos? I live in Meryland and how much would it cost me?
@@jeovannymedrano2923 i don't have a hi8 for sale just a regular 8mm. I do offer a digitization service however.
Is this cam still up for sale or w/e?
This one sold but I do have a Canon available. Viewfinder is dead on it due to broken flex cable. The camera does record and play though. I also have a sanyo but I haven't checked it out yet.
i would use the same type caps
Just cheap ones. I make no money from these. They go for 100 or less. I know eBay prices are much higher but only fools pay that. I get em for free and get them working well enough to play tapes and sell them.
watching you now for a while but notice you never clean the pads or use liquid flux. You always have really good results and enjoy watching your videos :)
I use liquid flux only on surface mount components. There is flux in the solder that works on conventional thru hole. As to cleaning the board this is totally unnecessary that's the flex itself is non-conductive. When I'm dealing with surface mounted chips are quite often clean it with isopropanol just so I can inspect and make sure that there are no solder bridges and a lot of times I do this off camera.
ive got one 720p i mean the very first ones i paid a huuuuge ton of money it was the top of the range at the time
Not these. They were 480i
@@12voltvids i mean a similar one from panasonic that was one of the first 720p
@@informediatech-bruno5766 would have been an HDV and i always thought that Panasonic used the same 1080i spec that Sony used and only JVC used 720. That was one of the problems with HDV. 2 resolution standards and you needed to use the same equipment throughout work flow.
9:18 when the acid kicks in
So to recap, you've recapped this camcorder. :-)
Just worked on a 34 year old camcorder. It was a beast.
@@12voltvids If we went purely by the smell of the caps, it would be a beast from under the sea.
"I sell them dirt cheap". Well, I figure 'dirt cheap' means different amounts of money around the world. Where I live, 100$ is very far from dirt cheap (even in Canadian $). There are many people here who earns 250-300$ a month! I'd buy such camera for 25-50$ max in working condition. 100$ maybe for a higher range stereo Hi8 or a Digital8 which can play back analog, but I don't really need it because i have separate 8, Hi8, and Digital8 cameras, and I would be reluctant to wear out a Digital8 camera with analog playback. Playing back regular 8mm tapes with Hi8 cameras makes some sense though, because Hi8 cams have S-Video output.
But a digital 8 camera will digitize it into a high quality DV stream and send it over FireWire at better quality than you can get with a capture card even over svideo. This one already sold and i ended up getting 200 for it and the guy that bought it sold it right away for 300. Made 100 just to pick it up and deliver it.
@@12voltvids I think not all analog playback capable Digital8 cams are able to digitize the analog signal and send it to FireWire. IIRC, only some of those can do it which has analog video input on them, and they are pretty rare. My high schools' studio had one, it was (well, not was, they probably still have it) a late '90s model, and they used it for capturing VHS footages as well.
I'm not sure if the old DV format is up to today's standard as a source, if someone wants a HD upscale. It might be the fault of my lowly, last generation Digital8 DCR-TRV270, but it produces quite a significant level of macroblocking around fast moving detailed objects, like tree foliage in the wind.
You said in a previous video that sometimes it seemed that a pro 3CCD Hi8 camcorder produced better picture than a pro 3CCD DV. That's exactly my impression even with consumer cameras. I prefer the picture of a Hi8 recording captured from S-Video over the picture of a Digital8 or miniDV captured through FireWire. I've never tried and compared what would happen to a good Hi8 recording if it's transferred through a Digital8 camera with FireWire. If it introduces the same macroblocking that my Digital8 camera does, then I'd stick with the S-Video output of a Hi8 camera instead.
Recenly I used to capure to Lagarith Lossless video with PCM audio, then encode it to h.264 and AAC audio. If any picture enhancement is needed, I'd do it on the lossless source file with AVIsynth and/or VirtualDub. But I'm just playing with it yet, I might start a small archiving business in the near future, like in 2 years or something. For a start, I need a stronger PC than this old E7500 Core2Duo, because it's struggling with any picture enhancements, especially with HD upscale...
@@mrnmrn1 every digital 8 camera that I've ever seen that has analog playback capabilities has the ability to digitize 8mm and high tapes. Not all had a pass through however so you could not just plug a VCR in and output it as DV. You could plug vhs in recorded onto digital 8 I meant output that as a DV stream but everyone that I saw that had analog playback could output on firewire. Unless someone asks for their tapes digitized into DV Avi I generally capture directly to a DVD recorder at the highest quality setting and then import the mp2 ipb stream and save it as an MPEG file. I find the color better we're using the hardware encoders in DVD recorders such as my Toshiba in Panasonic standalone machines as the color space is encoded 420 as opposed to 411. But for archiving I do not upscale I give the client their digitized tapes in 480i and they can upscale if they wish. 9 out of 10 customers don't even ask to have their tapes digitized to USB or hard drive they want their tapes digitized directly to DVD so they have a physical copy not just a file that can be wiped accidentally.
It's not that the BB encoding look bad as I showed in that demo tape that wasn't the tape format that made that recording look bad that was the crappy chips in the camera. The DV format had such high resolution and the camera used relatively low resolution sensors. that was a crappy Cannon three chip camera that made those recordings, my pro JVC did not produce artifacts like that and did look Superior to my hi8 footage of the day. The problem with analog is the chroma is noisy and that random noise does not play well with encoders and creates larger files than they need to be because the noise has to be also digitized a good clean video signal will look Superior when stored as digital files even in DV. TV looked very good when the source feeding it was good but you know saying garbage in garbage out.
The grating dude. I figure out about it on my cd lens floating base apparatus. I just put a video up about the RCA CD-9500. You will get a kick out of me (because of how on point you are, but I did get results!!!) Check it out when you feel like it. It's my brother's birthday. They gonna (slang, yes I know) be here soon. I will watch your latest soon! Probably tonight or tomorrow morning. :) Rock on dude.